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11 September 2009 1:58 PM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

Chalk it up to fluke timing or the shifting pop culture landscape, but there's a trio of Hollywood films this fall that deal directly with gaming by way of virtual reality storylines. Headlined by last weekend's "Gamer" and soon to be followed by the Bruce Willis action flick "Surrogates" and December's insanely hyped James Cameron epic "Avatar," this trend suggests just how dominant gaming is becoming in the entertainment arena -- dominant enough to tsked at by movies that are also arguably trying to mimic its qualities.

With stories centered on humans steering avatars through real-world settings, these three films deal with gaming's fundamental mechanics and serve as commentaries on the medium that encroaching on cinema's pop-cult supremacy. They're spectacle-heavy genre flicks that are also critiques of their main competition for consumers' time and money, reflecting the ever more frequent desire movies have shown to simultaneously emulate and malign the »

- Nick Schager

27 January 2009 12:59 AM, PST | Daily Film Music Blog | See recent Daily Film Music Blog news »

Why should you buy the soundtracks of Christopher Young? Well, for instance the music is quite good on some of them. And if you want to have more fun with the release, check out the tracklisting. You're bound to find somehing along the lines of "Accelerated Brundle Disease" or "Dancing With a Wet Handkerchief on Your Mother's Grave". But wait, there's more! The CD of Hush for intance contains the following titles: "Hush", "Little Baby", "Don't You Cry", "Mama's Gonna Buy", "You", "A". It's all fun. If you pay close attention, you might also find that several Young releases contain pun homages to famous composers as well. Below I've gathered all I could find, now it's up to you to guess which composers are referenced in the track titles. I might add that some of them are only guesses and I couldn't find references some of Young's biggest works »

2 articles from 2009